Awful Arthur is Coming – Pre-Storm Report

And the excellent drum fishing continues!   This fella pulled on a few of these angry drum yesterday.  After fish 3, he had me holding the rod up because his arms were beat.  Great stuff – that smile says it all.  We drifted for flounder for a bit and caught a handful of throwbacks.  Thanks for joining me!

On another note, it looks like Hurricane Arthur hates America.

Stay safe out there – hoping for the best, I know these fish will be hungry after this mess.

Signing off . . . see you guys after the storm!

Goodness gracious

Morning trip I had Brent and Company.  We had the kiddos on this one, so we busted out the bottom rigs and kept the action  hot and heavy.  We ended up pulling a couple keeper flounder during our drifts.  We went looking for drum for the last hour of the trip, and managed 1 bite that came unbuckled.

The second trip today, WOW!   We started out drifting for flounder, with one small one and some bycatch.  We headed over to start looking for drum – and landed 1 sight casting in pretty short order.  Then I got the call that changed everything.  The mother load of drum were piled up and chewing.  We went over there and caught them solid for 2 hours straight.  These boys will have some sore arms!

The lucky doormat

Fished with Timothy and crew yesterday. It was windy, very windy….. NE 20+

Started off the morning on the flats looking for drum.  Didn’t take long and we were bowed up on a double. One pulled.  Put some meat in the box and went looking for flounder. Wind made the fishing challenging so I put the boat on the trailer mid trip , and moved to the backside of the island.  We fished hard for a few bites but one really counted a big ol doormat flounder. Unfortunately he pulled right next to the boat and has another chance at life.  Hopefully we can fry his @$$ next year. Thanks Tim & crew!

Photo report

Busy week so I am just going to throw up some photos of the past few trips.  This site won’t be turning into one that just throws up photos every now and then, I promise!  I am off today so this is all you get, HA!  Time to catch up on stuff around the house / yard / office / truck / boat / tackle / and the list goes on.

Flounderific

Took Ken and Sam on a gigging charter last night. I don’t typically do gigging charters, but these guys were the perfect candidates to go and do it , and they were pumped up.  So we headed out and started combing the flats.  We start seeing fish right away, but alot of small ones. Sam sticks the first one, and Ken follows up with the the fish of the night shortly after.  Cruised around the flats and got a few more here and there.  Beautiful night with prime conditions.  Enjoyed their company – thanks guys!

This morning was one of those times when the alarm starts going off, and you swear you just fell asleep.  Anyways, hook up the boat and meet my morning crew at the ramp.   We did pretty good on the flounder, picked through some throwbacks and kept 4.  Thanks guys, see you next year!